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American 18th Century

Boy of the Beekman Family, c. 1720

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 130.8 x 103.6 cm (51 1/2 x 40 13/16 in.)

framed: 143.2 x 116.5 x 5.1 cm (56 3/8 x 45 7/8 x 2 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch

Accession Number

1978.80.11

Artists / Makers

American 18th Century (painter)

Image Use

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Provenance

Recorded as from New York state. Helen Read, by whom sold in 1954 to Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch.

Associated Names

Garbisch, Edgar William, Mr. and Mrs.
Read, Helen
Unknown Patron

Exhibition History

1973: American Primitive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art, Holland Union, Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, 1973, exhibition guide (copy not located).

1987: The American Primitive: Naive Paintings from 1720 to 1870, Mansfield Art Center, Ohio, 1987, no. 2, repro.

Bibliography

1980: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 253, repro., as Pieter Vanderlyn.

1992: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 372, repro.

1992: Chotner, Deborah, with contributions by Julie Aronson, Sarah D. Cash, and Laurie Weitzenkorn. American Naive Paintings. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1992: 435, repro. 436.

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